Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) Where a motor
vehicle to which Part IV of the Act applies is not, when landed in or brought
to this State, equipped with a set of identification tablets or number plates
in accordance with the law of the country or State or Territory of the
Commonwealth from which it was landed or brought, or where any such tablet or
plate is so mutilated that any material part is obscured, obliterated or
indistinct a person may not use that vehicle on any road in the State, unless
and until the owner of the vehicle applies to the Director General for, and
has obtained a set of temporary plates that, when issued, are affixed by the
owner to the vehicle; and the provisions of the Act and of these regulations
relating to identification tablets and number plates shall apply, mutatis
mutandis and so far as they can be applied to temporary plates so issued, as
though the temporary plates were identification tablets or number plates
issued in respect of a motor vehicle to which the provisions of Part IV of the
Act do not apply.
(2) Where an
application for a set of temporary number plates is received by the Director
General from the owner of a motor vehicle referred to in
subregulation (1), the Director General shall issue to the applicant a
set of number plates or identification tablets on payment of the charge
prescribed or authorised by the Road Traffic (Charges and Fees)
Regulations 2006 for a similar set when issued to a permanent resident of
the State.
(3) Upon the issue of
a set of temporary plates for a motor vehicle referred to in
subregulation (1), the owner shall fit them or cause them to be fitted to
the vehicle, in accordance with these regulations, and shall keep them so
fitted, until the licence or the extension or renewal of the licence granted
under the authority of section 31 or section 33 of the Act expires
or until the earlier exportation of the vehicle from the Commonwealth.
(4) Upon the expiry of
a vehicle licence granted, extended or renewed under Part IV of the Act, or
on, or immediately prior to, the exportation from the Commonwealth of the
vehicle for which the licence was granted, the owner or person in charge of
the vehicle shall leave any temporary plates issued in respect of that vehicle
with the Director General, immediately prior to the expiry or exportation.
[Regulation 18 amended in Gazette
2 Feb 1982 p. 402; 31 Jan 1997 p. 683;
28 Nov 2006 p. 4906 and 4911.]
[ 19. Deleted in Gazette 27 Jul 2004
p. 3082.]